Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III.R. Griffin, 1855 - 492 עמודים |
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עמוד vi
... interests of mankind , than they were while scientific study was confined within the narrow circles of the wealthy and the learned . Having , therefore , on retiring from office , more time left for literary pursuits than professional ...
... interests of mankind , than they were while scientific study was confined within the narrow circles of the wealthy and the learned . Having , therefore , on retiring from office , more time left for literary pursuits than professional ...
עמוד x
... interest the reader , to draw him towards the same inquiries , and to fix his views more closely upon the details of ... interests of any party , -the author , though he en- tirely approved the repeal , yet neither agreeing with those ...
... interest the reader , to draw him towards the same inquiries , and to fix his views more closely upon the details of ... interests of any party , -the author , though he en- tirely approved the repeal , yet neither agreeing with those ...
עמוד xii
... interests of mankind , as well as to the character of historians . But although I had no political animosities to encoun- ter , I feared my historical statements and my commentaries on some lives , as those of Voltaire , Rousseau , and ...
... interests of mankind , as well as to the character of historians . But although I had no political animosities to encoun- ter , I feared my historical statements and my commentaries on some lives , as those of Voltaire , Rousseau , and ...
עמוד 2
... interests of truth and justice therefore require that we should minutely examine the facts of the case ; and , happily , the evidence is so clear that it only requires an attentive consideration to remove all doubt from the subject . I ...
... interests of truth and justice therefore require that we should minutely examine the facts of the case ; and , happily , the evidence is so clear that it only requires an attentive consideration to remove all doubt from the subject . I ...
עמוד 21
... interest certainly belonged to the accident that he had so long survived the period of his success - that we knew there sat in our presence the man now in his old age reposing under the laurels won in his early youth . But take it ...
... interest certainly belonged to the accident that he had so long survived the period of his success - that we knew there sat in our presence the man now in his old age reposing under the laurels won in his early youth . But take it ...
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עמוד 256 - I am on the point of proposing to you a scheme for a representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura — I cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation.
עמוד 277 - The life which I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time.
עמוד 56 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of phlogiston ; but at that time so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that, till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
עמוד 224 - ... that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs.
עמוד 338 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par ; cibi potionisque desiderio 10 natural!, non voluptate modus finitus ; vigiliarum somnique nee die nee nocte discriminata tempora; id quod gerendis rebus superesset quieti datum; ea neque molli strato neque silentio accersita ; multi saepe militari sagulo opertum humi iacentem inter custodias stationesque militum conspexerunt.
עמוד 52 - THOSE WHO BEST DESERVE THEIR GRATITUDE THE KING HIS MINISTERS, AND MANY OF THE NOBLES AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO JAMES WATT WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE...
עמוד 56 - ... four-fifths of the common air employed ; so that as common air cannot be reduced to a much less bulk than that by any method of phlogistication, we may safely conclude, that when they are mixed in this proportion, and exploded, almost all the inflammable air, and about one-fifth part of the common air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass.
עמוד 50 - ... and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years, and he preserved up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illumined his happiest days.
עמוד 199 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society, with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board: he does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
עמוד 200 - Those leaders themselves, though they originally may have meant nothing but their own aggrandisement, become many of them in time the dupes of their own sophistry, and are as eager for this great reformation as the weakest and foolishest of their followers. Even though the leaders should have preserved their own heads, as indeed they commonly do, free from this fanaticism, yet they dare not always disappoint the expectation of their followers; but are often obliged, though contrary to their principle...